Eckhart Tolle

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....more deeply into the Now, more deeply into Being. When you

enter this timeless dimension of the present, change often

comes about in strange ways without the need for a great deal of

doing on your part. Life becomes helpful and cooperative. If inner

factors such as fear, guilt, or inertia prevented you from taking

action, they will dissolve in the light of your conscious presence.

 

Do not confuse surrender with an attitude of " I can't be bothered

anymore" or " I just don't care anymore." If you look at it closely,

you will find that such an attitude is tainted with negativity in the

form of hidden resentment and so is not surrender at all but

masked resistance. As you surrender, direct your attention

inward to check if there is any resistance left inside of you. Be

very alert when you do so; otherwise, a pocket of resistance may

continue to hide in some dark corner in the form of a thought or

an unacknowledged emotion.

 

Question: Letting go of resistance is easier said than done. I

still don't see clearly how to let go. If you say it is by surrendering,

the question remains: " How?"

 

Start by acknowledging that there is resistance. *Be* there

when it happens, when the resistance arises.

 

Observe how your

mind creates it, how it labels the situation, yourself, or others.

 

Look at the thought process involved. Feel the energy of the

emotion.By witnessing the resistance, you will see that it serves

no purpose. By focusing all your attention on the Now, the

unconscious resistance is made conscious, and that is the end

of it. You cannot be conscious *and* unhappy, conscious *and*

in negativity. Negativity, unhappiness, or suffering in whatever

form means that there is resistance, and resistance is always

unconscious.

 

-from Eckhart Tolle's The Power of Now

 

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